The Haunted House of APIs - Phantom Threats with Adam Arellano

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Episode • Oct 29, 2024 • 17m

The Haunted House of API's

Today, we are releasing another episode for Cybersecurity Awareness month, in our series entitled the Haunted House of API’s, sponsored by our friends at Traceable AI. In this series, we are building awareness around API’s, their security risks – and what you can do about it. Traceable AI is building One Platform to secure every API, so you can discover, protect, and test all your API's with contextual API security, enabling organizations to minimize risk and maximize the value API's bring to their customers.

Phantom Threats: The Ghosts Haunting Your API Security

Today’s episode is titled Phantom Threats: The Ghosts Haunting Your API Security, with Adam Arellano. API security threats often go unnoticed, hiding like ghosts in your infrastructure. Bots, sophisticated fraud attempts, account takeovers and attackers disguising themselves within legit traffic… these all pose risk to your organization, and can bypass traditional security measures, wreaking havoc without detection – until it’s too late. Adam is a tech advisor, Global CISO at Traceable, and will guide listeners through the world of phantom threats haunting API security.

What are "phantom threats" in the context of API security, and how do they go undetected?
Can you explain how advanced botnets and fraud attempts exploit APIs while blending into legitimate traffic?
Do you have a real-world example of a phantom threat that caused significant damage to an organization?
What makes detecting these phantom threats so challenging, and why do traditional security measures often fail?
What are the best strategies or technologies organizations can adopt to detect and eliminate these hidden threats before they cause harm?

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